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Our friends Ngahuia and Ian move to the UK on Thursday and we had a get together on Sunday. It was obviously a wee bit too much for little nine month old Charity….

While Vic and I were in Sydney a few weeks ago and on a harbour cruise one of my colleagues was wandering around taking photos. He then put them up on a server and I spotted this one of Vic.

I reckon it’s one of the most natural and beautiful shots I’ve ever seen of her…..

A really cool thing has started to happen over the last week or so – Max has started to try writing words himself by sounding them out in his head and spelling them as he would say them.  It makes for some very interesting ways of spelling things but you can usually figure out what he’s trying to say.  The really hilarious thing is he’ll sit there and argue about the spelling with you absolutely sure that he is right!

He’s also started to spell simple words that he’s never seen before by getting the phonetics right.

Amazing what a term and a bit at school can do for a kid.

This was a great weekend for football (soccer) results:

• My masters team won 1-0 for our first win of the season
• Max’s team won their “little dribblers” game 6-1. He also bought his first set of boots.
• The Phoenix won an exhibition, Chinese earthquake charity match 6-2. Vic and I took Max and Elliot along for their first Phoenix game – Max enjoyed it and Elliot was over it in about 20 minutes 🙂

Max and I also had a great bonding moment this afternoon as we sat there cleaning our boots together…..

How cool is this? Melbourne airport’s website has a live “radar” view of all flights coming into and going out of the airport so you can see exactly how your flight that you are interested in is getting on.

I’m absolutely knackered after 4 days of training and having to use my brain.

The first few days were HBDI related with the second day being particularly hard work.  We then took what we had learned and did two days of presentation skills training.  Out of it all I have three DVD’s showing a meeting and two presentations.  They should make for interesting viewing, maybe even for Vic! 🙂

That’s all really – I’m in the Air New Zealand lounge in Melbourne looking forward to getting home. Unfortunately the flight doesn’t get back to Wellington until 12:20 in the morning 🙁

Hello from Melbourne. As is usual I awoke at silly o’clock on my first day in Oz and this time decided to get out and about early to get the blood pumping. I was out of the hotel at about 6am and thought I’d take a few photo’s.

These are all handheld at very slow shutter speeds and edited (well, resized) on my work laptop so I have no idea what they really look like.